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Gmail Down: Google Service Suffering Intermittent Outages

Users of the popular Google-based email service are having trouble accessing their accounts.

If you use Gmail, checking to find out if you have mail right now could be a problem

Google’s Gmail service is unresponsive and won’t let users access their accounts. The outages have been intermittent and seem to affect Sarasota, the Tampa Bay area and beyond.

“Right now your mother is trying in vain to email you about Gmail being down,” the Comedy Central network tweeted on its Twitter feed a short while ago.

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Word on what is causing the problem isn’t readily available. 

As Google works through the problems, the basic HTML version of Gmail sems to be working. Here is the link to sign in using this stripped-down version: http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html

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